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CHAPTER-10:- Excess, Unconnected and unclaimed Goods, NR Cell, Public Auction. Excess Goods –Goods exceeding permissible carrying capacity or packages unloaded in excess as shown on seal card and in railway receipt are known as Excess goods. Section 73:-Punitive Charge for over loading of goods: -...

CHAPTER-10:- Excess, Unconnected and unclaimed Goods, NR Cell, Public Auction. Excess Goods –Goods exceeding permissible carrying capacity or packages unloaded in excess as shown on seal card and in railway receipt are known as Excess goods. Section 73:-Punitive Charge for over loading of goods: - If excess loading is found beyond the PCC, Railway Administration has a power to recover following charges from Consignor, Consignee or Endorsee:- g) Punitive charges for over loading. h) Load adjustment at forwarding station or Serving Station. i) Recovery of detention charges. Punitive charges for over loading Rules-2020 :- i. Punitive charge is levied for loading excess goods in wagons up to the point of detection. ii. If excess goods are detected at originating station and if party itself adjusted the load, punitive charges will not be collected. SITUATION ―A‖:- “If the aggregated pay load in a rake does not exceed the combined permissible carrying capacity of the rake”. SITUATION ―B‖:- “If the aggregated pay load in a rake exceeds the combined permissible carrying capacity of the rake.” Part1:- For all wagons Except‍BCNHL, BCCW, BFNSM 22.9, BCFC & BCFCM ‍ wagon: Excess weight over PCC Situation ―A‖ Situation ―B‖: Up to 1T Normal freight Normal freight More than 1T & up to 4T 2 times of the 3 times of the applicable freight rate applicable freight rate to to that commodity that commodity. More than 4T 2.5 times of the 4 times of the applicable freight rate applicable freight rate to to that commodity that commodity. 87 Part 2:- For Container Traffic: Excess weight Situation ―A‖ Situation ―B‖ over PCC Up to 1T Normal freight Normal freight More than 1T & up to 2 times of the freight 3 times of the 4T applicable to that com applicable freight rate to modify that commodity. More than 4T 2.5 times of the 4 times of the applicable freight rate to applicable freight rate to that commodity. that commodity. Part3:- For‍BCNHL, BCCW, BFNSM 22.9, BCFC and BCFCM‍wagons: Excess weight Situation ―A‖ Situation ―B‖ over PCC Upto 0.5 T Normal freight Normal freight More than 0.5 T and 2 times of the freight 3 times of the up to 3.5 T applicable to that com applicable freight rate to modify that commodity. More than 3.5 T 2.5 times of the applicable 4 times of the freight rate to that applicable freight rate to commodity. that commodity. Note: 1. Punitive charge will be levied on NTR. 2. Excess weight within tolerance weight will be charged with normal rate. 3. In situation ‘A’ the punitive charge will be recovered only on the weight excess than PCC and tolerance weight. 4. In situation ‘B’, if the excess weight is beyond tolerance limit, the punitive charge will be recovered on entire weight over PCC. 88 Unconnected Goods:– The goods which cannot be connected to any booking particulars as unable to send the wagon to right destination station, such goods/wagon are known as unconnected goods/ wagon. Reasons for Goods being Unconnected – i. No railway marking on packages. ii. Railway marking fainted or unreadable. iii. More than one marking on packages. iv. no marking as per rules v. Absence of seal cards or labels on wagon. Disposal of Unconnected Goods:- Entries regarding unconnected goods to be made in unconnected Goods Register and will be disposed as follows:- For Wagon load Consignment:– 1. To check the name of forwarding and destination stations in vehicle guidance. 2. Particulars of unconnected wagon should be informed to Commercial Controller. 3. If wagon is sealed, message is to be sent to last sealing station asking particulars of the wagon. 4. Wagon must be opened in the presence of RPF and on the basis of transit invoice, abstract invoice, railway marking, pocket label, paste on label etc, found and efforts to be taken for connecting wagon. 5. Message is to be sent to train forming station asking particular of the wagon. 6. Efforts to be made by IRCA to connect the wagon. 7. Unconnected wagon should be connected in 72 hours otherwise then goods will be unloaded from the wagon, description of the unloaded packages will be prepared and one copy will be sent to DCM office and one will be sent to claims department. 8. However, if unable to connect the unconnected goods/wagon, they will be disposed off as per orders of DCM. 89 Parcel Consignment 1. Efforts to be made to read the name of destination station on the basis of railway marking on the package. 2. Package to be tallied with the loading summary. 3. Efforts to be made to connect the package on the basis of private marking. 4. If there is no marking on the packages, they will be opened in the presence of RPF and if any list found in the package, it will be tallied with the packages and efforts to be made to connect the packages. 5. If packages are unloaded from sealed SLR or wagon, message to be sent to sealing station asking particular. 6. If unable to connect the packages, then a list will be prepared of the items found in the packages and one copy will be sent to DCM office and one will be sent to claims office. 7. Unconnected goods will be disposed of as per order of DCM Unclaimed Goods:- The consignment which has arrived at its proper destination has been connected with the corresponding invoice and has been made available for delivery, but there is no claimant for such consignment, such consignment is known as unclaimed goods. 1. If any consignment lies unclaimed for 7 days at destination station, legal notice will be send to consignee by registered post. 2. According to section 84, the consignee must take the delivery of goods within 7 days from the date of receipt of notice otherwise it will be disposed of as per orders of DCM. 3. If the name and address of the consignee is not known, then this notice will be served to the consignor through the Station Manager of forwarding station. 4. Delivery of livestock or perishable goods must be affected within 12 hours from time of unloading otherwise they will be auctioned after 12 hour. 5. Goods other than food grains and pulses can be stored up to 3 months from the date of unloading and food grains and pulses up to 2 months. After this period the goods will be auctioned by railway administration. 90  6. Following commodities will not be auctioned but will be handed over to their respective departments. a) Dangerous explosive and inflammable articles. b) Military Stores. c) Articles belonging to Post and Telegraph department. d) Contraband and Intoxicating Goods. e) Banned Goods. f) Articles which are useful to railway department. Not Received Cell (NR Cell):- Not Received Cell is established on Indian Railway at Railway Board, Zonal and Divisional level with the aim to enhance the facilities given to rail customers after booking of goods by Railways. Unconnected wagon are traced by this cell and efforts are made to send them to their correct destination as early as possible. If the goods are not received by the consignee or not at the destination station, consignee or Station Master can contact this cell on phone. Work of NR Cell is handled by Commercial Inspector. Tracers will be sent to forwarding station as per requirement. The main function of NR Cell is to trace unconnected wagon/goods and to minimize claims on Railways. If any Goods / wagons could not be traced at the end of month amongst the complaints received at divisional level, then a report will be prepared and sent to Zonal NR Cell Office and then from Zonal NR Cell to Railway Board NR cell office. Public Auction:- 1. Unconnected / Unclaimed goods are to be auctioned with the permission of DCM at the nearest auction depot. 2. Before auctioning the packages, advance information regarding auction must be published through local newspaper at least 7 days in advance. 3. Details of the information are as follows: a) Place of Auction – b) Date and time of auction- c) Weight and description of packages/goods. 91 4. A copy of this notice must be posted on the notice board at the place of auction. 5. The packages which are to be auctioned must be made available for inspection to the public. 6. For auction a committee of concerned officers is to be made. 7. Railway employee cannot participate in the auction. 8. The goods are sold to the highest bidder. 9. Railway reserves the right to cancel auction, if reserve price of package is not received. 10. The amount received by auction will be deposited in railway earnings. If any party claims after auction of the packages, then all the expenditure incurred by the railway will be deducted from the amount received from auction and remaining amount will be paid to the party. 11. Auction of lost property (luggage) valuing up to ₹.5000/- can be done by Commercial Inspector or by station Manager (in absence of Commercial Inspector). 92